GOP Leadership Tees Up Immigration for Retreat

House Republicans are poised to decide the fate of an immigration overhaul at their retreat in two weeks, according to lawmakers leaving a meeting with leadership on Wednesday.

After the House overwhelmingly passed the omnibus spending bill Wednesday, Republican leadership held a meeting in the basement of the Capitol with freshmen lawmakers to discuss a wide range of issues.

According to lawmakers, GOP leaders are preparing to use the Republican retreat in Cambridge, Md., as the debate ground for an immigration overhaul.

Asked where immigration fits in with the GOP legislative agenda, freshman Texas Rep. Randy Weber responded, “That’s a good question.”

“Stay tuned,” Weber said. “We’re going to see how that plays out. I don’t know that it plays in yet, but, you know, you never can tell.”

Andy Barr of Kentucky pointed out that immigration “will be one of many” topics at the retreat. Barr said Obamacare and the Republican jobs agenda would both be “topics that everybody knows we’ll be dealing with.”

But what Republicans do — or don’t do — on immigration seems to be at the forefront. A House GOP leadership aide told CQ Roll Call Wednesday night that “there will definitely be a discussion,” but said it was unclear if Republicans would emerge with “a yes/no binary choice.”

Coming out of the meeting, Indiana Rep. Susan W. Brooks said she didn’t know if Republicans would have “a decision coming out of the retreat, but that’s what the retreat is for: to have the discussion.”

No to amnesty yes to mass deportation yes to extreme immigration overhaul , faster, easier, stricter screening and increased numbers. Send the illegal law breakers home and make them apply for citizenship.

TRonJ

Sounds good…except that isn’t going to happen as long as half of Congress and the presidency is controlled by Democrats.

Layla

The minute that is no longer the case, this president is gone.

TRonJ

I agree. Its different when you’re in control.

John Prospero

Go ahead GOP….pass some immigration “reform” bill….that we all know will end up in amnesty one way or another….and you can kiss the mid-terms goodbye….go ahead and do it.

TRonJ

We already have de facto amnesty….you might want to think in other terms.

Layla

Count one lifelong Republican as reregistering Independent and expect MANY OTHERS to follow me.

MrSmith

They’ll lose every working Republican’s vote.
On the bright side for Boehner and Cantor there’s not a whole lot less of those voters than there were when Boehner took the gavel…

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